to perpetuate racism
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7.4
- phrasal verb
- /pərˈpɛtʃuˌeɪt ˈreɪsɪzəm/
- Offensive
:
perpetuar el racismo
- Are they attempting to perpetuate racism?
Examples
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So Black people's views about racism in America are thinly veiled attempts to perpetuate racism as a political/cultural tool that fosters divisions, rather than unity, among people.
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Whether or not you expressly stated that there should be more division, comments like yours are purposefully crafted to perpetuate racism and racist thoughts.
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And it's why white people who claim to be colorblind are actually perpetuating racism.
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Then, of course, the categorization to perpetuate racism comes later.
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I can understand that the color-blind thing can perpetuate racism for Americans.
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This is a good point; expand on how the media perpetuates racism and cultural stereotypes.
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The anger of the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam is more likely to perpetuate racism than overcome it.
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That stereotyping, in turn, made it easier for whites to perpetuate racism and systematically deny rights to black Americans.
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There are so many different types of clothing and styles that do not perpetuate racism and the trivialization of oppressed people's cultures.
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Many social media platforms perpetuate racism by allowing harmful stereotypes to spread unchecked.
Antonyms
How Persistent
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6.7
- Offensive
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7.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'perpetuate' (to cause something to continue) plus 'racism' (prejudice based on race), yielding 'cause racist attitudes or practices to continue.' This follows a straightforward causative + noun pattern common across languages, so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The verb perpetuate racism creates a picture of passing a burning torch from person to person so the fire does not go out. Here, perpetuate means 'to keep something going' and racism means the unfair ideas or actions against people, so perpetuate racism means 'to make racist ideas or actions continue'.